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  1. Active Themes. After Telemachus has given Athena a proper welcome, she tells Telemachus that Odysseus is still alive, and that he is held captive on a faraway island. She prophesies that Odysseus will soon return to his home. Telemachus describes the shame the suitors have brought upon the estate.

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  2. Book I. Previous Next. The Gods In Council—Minerva's Visit To Ithaca—The Challenge From Telemachus To the Suitors. Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

  3. The Odyssey: Book 1 Summary. Book 1 of The Odyssey opens with the Greek gods in council on Mount Olympus. The goddess Athena, a fierce champion of Odysseus, pleads with Zeus to intervene and free the hero from Calypso’s island. Zeus agrees and sends the messenger god Hermes to order Calypso to release Odysseus.

  4. Book One opens traditionally with the narrative of the rhapsode invoking the muse and announcing his epic argument: the wanderings of Odysseus. We learn of Odysseus’ intelligence, experience, and endurance; his concern for himself and inability to save his crew; and his hunger for “home and wife.”

  5. Book One. "Oh Goddess of Inspiration, help me sing of wily Odysseus, that master of schemes!" So Homer begins his epic, though the hero himself is still offstage. We are treated to a glimpse of life among the supreme gods on Mount Olympus.

  6. Book I Summary: The narrator calls upon the Muse to help him tell the story of Odysseus. We pick up ten years after the fall of Troy in the Trojan War (the subject of The Iliad).

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    At a divine council on Mount Olympus, Athena pleads with her father, Zeus, to take pity on Odysseus and allow him to return home. She suggests that Zeus dispatch Hermes to liberate Odysseus from Calypso while Athena visits Ithaca to advise King Odysseus' son, Telemachus.

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